psykidellic, i tried windowsize and it gave an error, columns & lines worked.and to change font in gVim, set guifonti prefere tiny Lucida console 8ptswhat fonts do you use?is there a way to reload the vimrc / gvimrc w/o quitting gVim?

frogonwheels

you can :so itbut that doesn'thelp if you've commented stuff out

pkrumins

thanksSuppose I create a few tabs, are there any default shortcuts to switch between tabs?

frogonwheels

gt

SAS_Spidey01

replce tags with spaces ?tabs*

frogonwheels

pkrumins: ctrl+pageup and ctrl+pagedown

pkrumins

Also, do you know a shortcut for creating a new tab? I currently type :tabnewgonna change ctrol+pageup and ctrl+pagedown to ctrl+h and ctrl+l as analogy with arrow keys h l to move to the left and right tab

frogonwheels

<c-w>T takes the current buffer to a new tab:help tab-page-commandsSAS_Spidey01: you mean :set expandtab :retab

psykidellic

pkrumins, not windowsize but winsizepkrumins, winzize work for gVim running on Mac OS X here

SAS_Spidey01

wow, never knew about retab. Always used 1,$s/<tab char>/<spaces wanted>/g

pkrumins

psykidellic, oh.frogonwheels, thanks reading that.one more question, what shortcuts are to fold/unfold?

does anybody know what would be the equivalent of <save as>??? :o newfile creates a new blank file

SAS_Spidey01

:he fold-options

pkrumins

i watched a video lecture on Vim by its author @ google tech lectures and he suggested to check where you spend your time and if you notice you are repeating same thing over and over again then look up and use a shorter version for the same action.SAS_Spidey01, thanks